Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

William M. Evarts was elected United States Senator from New York, Tuesday, Jan. 20. The following gentlemen were also elected to the Senate on the same day: Jonathan Chase of Rhode Island, O. H. Platt of Connecticut, D. W. Yoorhees of Indiana, Z, B. Vance of North Carolina, George G. Vest of Missouri, and Wilkinson Call of Florida. It is stated on good authority that Mr. Randall will not be a candidate for the

fpeakershtpof the House of Be presen tatives If th s proves true, Mr. Cor.isl3 will be elected without opposition.

Col. John C. Spooner was nominated by the Joint BepubHe.in legislative caucu at Madison, Wis., for United States Senator on Wednesday, Jan. 21. The nom ination wav mode on Joint ba’iot, Spooner receiving 51 votes against 25 for Fairchild Secretary Henry M. Teller was elected Unite i States Senator from Colorado, and J. I. Cameron was chosen a* his own successor in the Senate from Pennsylvania. Gon. Bragg received the compliuventary nomination of the Democrats of the Wisconsin Legislature for United Stater Senator. A State temperance convention was held at Dos Moines, lowa, State Senator (.’lark, of Page County, being chosen President. The resolutions demand a tetter enforcement of the prohibitory law, and expect that political or other societies courting support from the Prohibitionists shall take no backward or equivocal stop In the matter. At a caucus of the Democratic members of the Wisconsin Legislature resolutions were passed requesting the Presidentelect to appoint Col. William F. Vilas to a position in his Cabinet. James F. Legate promises a letter explaining all of his negotiations with Editor Clarkson in the St. John imbroglio, and Clarkson, anticipating it, sticks to his charges and demands that those whom he has offended go to tho courts for a vindication, where all the facts can be brought out.